“Are
you one of the Red Guard?”
This man was informed. “I served
my country until the day my country dissolved.”
“And then you ended up here – in the middle of nowhere.”
“I
came on my own, with others who believed as I did. We founded this place, and have lived here
peacefully for a long time. We have bothered
no one, yet the government feels a need to spy on us.”
“I
imagine millions of dead, innocent people would have said the same thing about
the USSR.”
“I
suppose they might. We did have a
tendency to overdo things.”
(from The 14th
Colony by Steve Berry)
5*/10. The complete review is here.
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